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Collective Powers (2023)
Book Chapter
Guo, X., & Tugby, M. (2023). Collective Powers. In C. J. Austin, A. Marmodoro, & A. Roselli (Eds.), Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers (142-166). New York and Abingdon: Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003298830-11

It is natural to think there are higher-level powers, such as a screen’s powers to display various images, and lower-level powers such as each pixel’s powers to display various colours. Moreover, it is natural to think that higher-level powers depend... Read More about Collective Powers.

The dynamical essence of powers (2021)
Journal Article
Roselli, A., & Austin, C. (2021). The dynamical essence of powers. Synthese, 199(5-6), 14951-14973. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03450-8

Powers are properties defined by what they do. The focus of the large majority of the powers literature has been mainly put on explicating the (multifaceted) results of the production of a power in certain (multifaceted) initial conditions: but all t... Read More about The dynamical essence of powers.

How long is now? A new perspective on the specious present (2019)
Journal Article
Roselli, A. (2019). How long is now? A new perspective on the specious present. Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy, 10(49), 119-140. https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2018-0009

What is the Specious Present? Which is its duration? And why, ultimately, do we need it to figure in our phenomenological account of temporal perception? In this paper, after introducing the role of the Specious Present in the main models that accoun... Read More about How long is now? A new perspective on the specious present.